Reply #20: You are a good writer....

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... but you are completely inconsistent.

>>>In short, if you were Kerry and had decided to destroy the remaining Republican hold on national power decisively ASAP, and all the polling says Democrats own domestic issues but are behind on foreign policy, you might very well pursue designs to demonstrate the Administration's abject hypocrisy, lies, and failures in the Middle East in unimpeachable fashion......


Kerry had a freaking year to make this case, and he failed MISERABLY. He failed because his IWR vote limited what he could actually say.

So while I agree largely with you have have said here, I totally and vehemently disagree with your conclusion, which seems to be "now Kerry gets it".

Too little, too late. You cannot unwind a failure, and his campaign was a failure because he wouldn't/couldn't effectively attack Bush on his most obvious weakness, and it was his own damn fault.